Dutch car maker plans move to UK

[PingDit]

A luxury sports car maker based in the Netherlands has announced it is moving an assembly plant to Coventry. Spyker Cars makes up to 50 luxury cars a year, mainly for the US market, with prices starting from about £180,000.

Not British but at least someone's trying to help UK industry!
Can't say I've ever heard of them! anyway, the story's here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8372121.stm

 

[grumpyoldb]

A luxury sports car maker based in the Netherlands has announced it is moving an assembly plant to Coventry. Spyker Cars makes up to 50 luxury cars a year, mainly for the US market, with prices starting from about £180,000.

Not British but at least someone's trying to help UK industry!
Can't say I've ever heard of them! anyway, the story's here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/8372121.stm

Here you go, Ping......................

Spyker F1 was a Formula One team that competed in the 2007 Formula One World Championship, and was created by Spyker Cars after their buyout of the short-lived Midland F1 team. The change to the Spyker name was accompanied by a switch in racing livery from the red and white previously used by Midland, to an orange and silver scheme—already seen on the Spyker Spyder GT2-R—orange being the national colour and the auto racing colour of the Netherlands. At the end of the 2007 season the team was sold and renamed Force India Formula One.[1]

 

[Rigga]

Oh....



I thought we'd be getting DAF's back!

 

[grumpyoldb]

Oh....



I thought we'd be getting DAF's back!

P!ss off..............! DT_Xtremez_42:

No way.:S Feckin elastic band driven clogs.

 

[Talk Wrench]

So the cloggies get to make our "traditional" HP sauce and we get to make their luxury cars.

Fair swap methinks!!

TW

 

[PingDit]

Thanks for that Grumpy, who'd have thought?.....

 

[John Lloyd]

P!ss off..............! DT_Xtremez_42:

No way.:S Feckin elastic band driven clogs.

....That go backwards as quickly as they go forwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOFY_9PcC8&feature=related

Only the coffee drinking cloggies would.

 

[PingDit]

On further investigation, I didn't realise it came complete with missile launchers!

http://www.spykercars.com/?pag=8

 

[grumpyoldb]

....That go backwards as quickly as they go forwards.


Only the coffee drinking cloggies would.

Only in Holland, mate........ only in Holland! DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Burt]

Funny we were only talking about the backward DAF racing the other day at work. The same bloke's still on telly here now, now an old baldy git!

 

[John Lloyd]

Funny we were only talking about the backward DAF racing the other day at work. The same bloke's still on telly here now, now an old baldy git!

Used to go watching it at the Baarlo (sic) autodrome back in the day. Backward Dafs, caravan racing and doubles chained side by side. 10 laps forward and then 10 laps in reverse. Top gear before Top Gear.

 

[Rich_P]

This is fantastic news I think. DT_Xtremez_30: